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Meg

"federation doesn't scale! It's impossible!" I say on the world wide network of networks that's built up of thousands and thousands of individual operators interoperating over a suite of standard protocols.

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Andrew Yourtchenko

@megmac internet is more or less a fediverse that mostly runs on beer (and some money here and there) :)

Edit: whereby I always uncontrollably giggle when the crypto bros brag about the bitcon and other projects surviving the collapse of the civilization :)

SteveK🏳️‍🌈

@megmac Yeah - there are currently only about 74,000 Autonomous System Networks, announcing over 938,000 routed networks, containing millions of independently managed subnets. How could you possibly scale a few thousand hosts?

CoolOwl

@megmac SMTP would seem like a simple counterexample; it seems to have scaled quite splendidly.

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